Jesse Nathan Glaude is a summa cum laude graduate of the Westminster Choir
College, where he studied sacred music, choral
conducting, organ and harpsichord. Among the honors garnered there, he was named
an Andrew J. Rider Scholar for distinguished academic achievement, was elected to membership in the National Music Honor Society
Pi Kappa Lambda, and was organ scholar at the prestigious
Nassau Presbyterian Church. His primary professors included Mark A. Anderson (organ), Gerard Farrell (Gregorian
chant), Robin Leaver (sacred music), Robert Carwithen (improvisation), James Jordan and Andrew Megill (choral conducting).
He continued his training at the Princeton
Early Keyboard
Center, under the tutelage of harpsichordist and recording
artist Gavin Black.
Mr. Glaude has been
Director of Music at the historic Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Norwich, Connecticut, since 2005.
He is founder and Executive Director of the Christ Church School of the Arts and of the Chamber
Music at Christ Church series, each created to enrich the artistic life of the community through both
professional instruction and performance. In 2008 he designed and oversaw the installation of Christ Church's new
sanctuary organ - a landmark Rodgers instrument of three manuals and 130 speaking stops.
He is Dean of the New
London County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and chairs the Guild’s committee for New Organist Development
– which annually awards the Roberta Bitgood Scholarship to young musicians seeking a career in the field.